Hand-torch.



W. B. SANFORD.

HAND TORCH.

APPLIOATION FILED APR.28, 1913.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH c0., WASHINGTON, D, Q

Patented Feb. 10, 1914.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM B. SANFORD, OF NEWBERN, NORTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR F ONE-HALF TO CHARLOTTE N. BARRINGTON, OF NEWBERN, NORTH CAROLINA.

HAND-TORCH.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM B. SANFORD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newbern, in the county of Craven, State of North Carolina, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hand Torches, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hand torches and other oil burning devices; and its objects are to construct a safe and reasonably cheap device of the kind, as is fully set out in the accompanying drawings and clearly described and claimed in the following specification.

In the drawing Figure l, is a side elevation of the invention. Fig. 2, is a median vertical section thereof. F ig. 3, is a side elevation of the torch burner.

The various features of the device are referred to by letters, similar letters denoting corresponding parts in the several views.

The letter A represents the barrel or receiver for the fluid, or oil used.

l3 and C are threaded rings screwed into the top and bottom of the receiver, and D and I are threaded plugs, screwed into said rings. These plugs are centrally perforated to admit a rod G, which passes upward from below the receptacle A, through its bottom plug, and into the plug l. at the top of the receptacle.

E is a nut with a set screw, attached to the 5 i said upper plug, a perforated acket secured bottom ol the rod G. The'rod G is provided with a screw thread H, to engage in the threaded plug I. The lower end of the plug I is provided with transverse apertures e, a, through which the oil flows when 'he rod G is withdrawn.

L is a conveyor tube through which the oil passes from the central aperture in the plug I, to the torch or flame. The tube L is screwed into the upper end of the plug I, at the point e.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 28, 1913.

Patented Feb. 10, 1914.

Serial No. 764,091.

M is a perforated j acket, forming a cooling chamber around conveyor tube L.

N is a holder for absorbent material comprising a nut O, which is screwed upon the upper end of the tube It and is provided with projecting curved wires P, adapted to hold a ball of absorbent material in contact with the end of the tube L, so that oil passing through the tube L will be taken up by the absorbent material and fed to the flame.

l laving now described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure, is

1. In a device of the character described, a fluid receptacle, a fluid conveyer operatively connected to said receptacle, means to regulate the flow ot' fluid, a perforated jacket around said conveyer, and a holder for absorbent material on the upper end of said conveyor.

A torch comprising an oil receptacle 5 having threaded ends. a threaded ring in each end, a centrally threaded plug in each ring, a vertically adjustable .rod extending from below said receptacle upward through the lower plug in said receptacle and into the plug in the upper end of said receptacle the upper end of said rod being threaded and adapted to engage in said upper plug, a thumb nut on the lower end of said rod by which said rod is vertically adjusted, transverse apertures through the lower part of upon the upper plug of said receptacle, a conveyor tube in said jacket and extending thereabove and a holder for absorbent material attached to the upper end of said conveyor tube.

W'M. B. SANFORD.

\Vitnesses GEO. R. SIMMONS, A. T. BANKS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. G. 

